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NAME lEWETT 625 JEWETT of the Medical Society of the County of Kings, a society he served successively as cen- sor, trustee, vice-president, and president dur- ing the years of 1880, 1881, and 1882. His membership included the Brooklyn Anatomi- cal and Surgical Society, the Brooklyn Medi- cal Society, the Associated Physicians of Long Island, the Medical Association of Greater New York, the New York Academy of Medi- cine, and the New York Obstetrical Society. In the latter he was honored with its presi- dency in 1894. As a figure in State politics, we find that he was a member of the New York State Med- ical Society from 1886 to 1910. In the latter year he was elected president and was serving in that capacity at the time of his death. In 1891 and 1893 he was vice-president of the Physicians' Mutual Aid Association. In 1900 he served as president of the American Gyne- cological Society. Besides being a member of this National Association, he was for many years a member of the American Academy of Medicine, the American Medical Association, the British Gynecological Society, and the De- troit Gynecological Society. When the Pan- American Medical Congress was organized his international reputation was recognized by making him an honorary president. He was one of the founders of the International Con- gress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. As a writer. Dr. Jewett's life was a busy one ; his publications were numerous and valu- able. In 1891 he phblished his "Manual of Child Bed Nursing," one of the most helpful little guides to the nurse and mother. In 1894 he brought out the first edition of "The Out- lines of Obstetrics," which has since appeared under the title of "The Essentials of Obstet- rics." In 1898 he edited a "System of Ob- stetrics by American Teachers," which ran through three editions, the last of which ap- peared in 1907. Besides these three books, he was a frequent collaborator, contributing to the "American Text-book of Obstetrics," the "Hamilton System of Legal Medicine," Keat- ing's "Gynecolog>'," and Foster's "Handbook of Therapeutics." He was also a frequent contributor to medical journals. Some forty papers, all of which bear the stamp of authority, were the products of Dr. Jewett's pen. Although best known as an ob- stetrician and gj'nccologist, yet his interest in medicine was general. As a consultant, his diagnostic powers and wide clinical knowledge, his ability to quote the very latest advances in any subject under discussion, made his counsel invaluable to the younger men. He died after a very brief illness, from the effects of a cere- bral hemorrhage, August 6, 1910, at the age of seventy-one years. He was a diligent and thoughtful student all his life. Dr. Jewett was a figure among men, cour- teous, commanding, honest, forceful, and fear- less, sure of his premises, clear in his deduc- tions, powerful in his presentations, conserva- tive in his practice, embodying the requisites of a great teacher. John Osborn Polak. Trans. Amer. Gynec. Soc, 1911, vol. xxxvi, p. 591-594. Long Island Med. Jour., 1910, vol. iv, 349-352. Jewett, Theodore Herman (18IS-1878) Dr. Jewett was born at South Berwick, Maine, March, 24, 181 S. His ancestors were of Danish and French descent, and he was the son of Capt. Furber and Sarah Orne Jewett. His childhood was spent in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, the family returning to South Berwick in 1823, when the father decided to settle on land he had bought. Theodore was a student from childhood and entered Bowdoin at the age of fifteen, gradu- ating with the class of 1834. While there he was a great favorite, studious and quiet and highly thought of by his classmates. He studied privately with Dr. William Berry of Exeter, New Hampshire, with Dr. Winslow Lewis (q. v.), of Boston, both of whom pre- dicted great success for him. He also at- tended medical lectures at Dartmouth and Harvard, and finally (1840) took his degree at the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. He hoped, at this time, to study in Europe, and to settle in a larger city, but his health was delicate, a brother had just died from tu- berculosis, and his father begged the son to stay at home, so he spent his life in South Berwick, always hoping that opposition to his original plans would cease. To an ambitious man like Jewett it was a lonely life, far from the citcle of his professional friends of whom he was so fond. He worked thoroughly and well, and soon became known and appreciated as an excellent physician. He had wonderful skill in diag- nosis, and in discovering appropriate remedies. He never tired of living and he never grew old. For many years he was a most satis- factory lecturer on obstetrics in the medical School of Maine. During the Civil War he was surgeon of the Enrollment Board at Port- land, and was once president of the Maine Medical Association. His presidential address, delivered in 1878, was a remarkable and schol- arly essay on the "Practice of Medicine."